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ICE Releases Documents on Wisconsin Arrests

Frederica Freyberg:
We go now to an update on immigration arrests in Wisconsin. Documents released Monday by Representative Mark Pocan shed new light on 81 Wisconsin arrests ICE made last September. Over a three-day period, Immigration and Customs Enforcement out of Milwaukee detained people across the state. Pocan says ICE originally maintained it was targeting only law violators in the raids. ICE itself says about 20% of the detainees had no criminal history.

Mark Pocan:
But it is relevant that so many people don’t have a criminal history and were not on a list of 250 people that we were told that they were trying to apprehend.

Frederica Freyberg:
The documents Pocan released stem from a Freedom of Information Act request the Congressman filed in October. He says he may use his role on the House Appropriations Committee to get more information from ICE.
Next Tuesday afternoon, Representative Pocan and Green Bay Representative Mike Gallagher will address a town hall gathering in Appleton. The topic? Shared values in these polarized political times. Wisconsin Public Television will live stream the event at 3:00 pm next Tuesday, March 19. Then next Friday we’ll have my interview with the Congressmen.